Using the world’s most advanced radio telescopes, astronomers have discovered a spinning dead star so rare, strange and unique that…
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Astronomers have discovered a massive new solar system body located beyond the orbit of Pluto. The weird elongated orbit of…
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Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Today we’re leaving the podcast studio to take you on…
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Astronomers have been aware of cosmic vampires, dead stars that hungrily strip plasma from victim stars, for some time. New…
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QUICK FACTS What it is: The open star clusters NGC 460 and NGC 456 Where it is: 200,000 light-years away,…
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An artistic rendering based on a real image of the IceCube neutrino detector at the South Pole IceCube/NSF We are…
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Whoooooo’s there? Just a “Cosmic Owl,” the latest strange discovery from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). A new study…
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Astronomers have confirmed a rare and extraordinary discovery: the third known interstellar object to enter our solar system. Named 3I/ATLAS,…
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Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk…
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A line of galaxies formed after two dwarf galaxies collided head-on, ripping gas from each other Keim et al./DECaLS A…
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